Y'all should do a prank episode on Rhett and Link, where the crew laughs extra hard at funny things Link says and do and not at all at funny things Rhett says and do
that makes sense - I guess it all comes from the german verb - schmieren which means to lubricate / grease or smear something. Cause i was confused, but yiddish has a lot of similarities to german
Panera isn't a bagel place as Rhett stated. You don't go there thinking oh they have bagels, you go there thinking that you want bread or soup in a bread bowl or a sandwich with a soup in a bread bowl.
right? Like I don't know if I've ever ordered a bagel from there? I know some people do, but I mainly get soup or a sandwich sometimes? Those are the things I order
As and employee of Einsteins I'm proud we took this win! As a baker at Einsteins the cheesy hasbrown bagel for the first round was appalling! That store can do better! Plus, the green chile and cheddar jalapeno bagels are the real winners at Einsteins!
Schmear and smear are basically the same word. Smear is the English word, Schmear is the yiddish word that has recently been borrowed into English. Schmear has more to do with food and is more readily used as a noun but I think both can be used as nouns and verbs.
Yup! It’s absolutely amazing. So good that I’m currently making some homemade!😂 Hopefully this recipe, for the actual cinnamon crunch, is good or I’m going to be let down.
Cream cheese is a type of schmear. All cream cheese spreads are schmears but not all schmears are cream cheese based. Although typically schmears are cream cheese based.
The WHOLE POINT of a muffin top is to get all the crispy, sugary, topping filled goodness. Why Panera decided to just make a bread cookie is so confusing to me 😅
JAB Holding Company owns Bruegger’s, Krispy Kreme, Peet’s Coffee and Penera Brands ( Panera Bread, Einstein Bros., Caribou Coffee ) who are headquartered in Luxembourg. 😎👍
I was an Einstein Bros. store manager for 4 years way back in the early 2010's while I was getting my Masters degree. Link is 100% right about the "schmear marketing". Einstein's cream cheese is a whipped cream cheese so it "schmears". The word comes from the German word "smear" which essentially means to spread butter... a lighter, more spreadable topping than actual cream cheese. It's easier to spread because it's whipped and almost butter-like.
As a Panera Bread baker, I'm sad we took this loss! On the last cinnamon sugar bagel, the cinnamon sugar being on the inside is actually a mistake by the baker who made it that day. You're supposed to perfectly pinch the dough and put the cinnamon crunch topping on top, but I'm assuming their dough partially came apart before baking. Unfortunate loss for Panera, but as many others stated, Panera is more of a sandwich and soup bread place than a bagel place. Einsteins does slap though.
Can I ask how much of the food is still made in-house, rather than shipped/reheated? I've loved Panera since I was a teenager and I still like certain items, but it seems the quality has gone down :/ Love the cinnamon crunch and asiago bagels tho.
As a Brit I cannot fathom eating a bagel untoasted. I've never met a British person who doesn't toast the bagel. It's so hard and chewy without toasting
Just looked up Einstein Bros and found that theirs two in my city. Crazy, I never heard of them before. One in a college a the other is across the street from another college. Pretty strategic.
All 3 in the state of Alabama where I live are on or very near college campuses. They seem to be targeting the college student market pretty specifically where Panera likes to target a wider market of working professionals and soccer moms.
So, in case you want the definition answer (because I also was curious) Schmear is a word of Germanic origin, equivalent to "smear" or "spread". In some Germanic languages, the cognate of smear itself means butter. The use and spelling of schmear or shmear in American English is a direct loanword from Yiddish, where its original usage referred to cheese.
Yea ! I was thinking the same thing, I was always wondering if they recorded a bunch of these at a time and just swapped clothes etc and this kinda leans into that a lil bit !
This definitely wasnt filmed at 2am. They 100% film multiple episodes a day, and more along a regular work day schedule. There's a ton of people that work there, they can't have all of them working nights.
anyone else from NJ/NY that’s super confused as to why panera is being considered as a “good” bagel place or at least one worth to compare with another
Am I the only one who doesn’t think these two are in the same category? Einsteins bagels should be compared to like bagel boys and then Panera bread is a lunch place that’s not the same
I agree - I'm pretty sure Panera doesn't have bagels at all their locations, because I never knew they even had bagels. Around me, I only see people going there for lunch. Everyone goes to Einstein Bros in the morning for bagels. I would compare Einstein to Great American Bagel (those are the 2 biggest ones near me, anyway), and I would compare Panera to something like Potbelly I guess; though I don't think Panera would win regardless of which category you put it in. I think Panera used to be better when it was a smaller, private company (though I'm just assuming it was a mom & pop shop at some point).
I don't like Paneras lunches i only like there bagels and pastries. I tend to think of them more for breakfast. They are also closer to me so there is that.
The cinnamon crunch bagels from Panera are 1 of my favorite 3 things. I love them and the chocolate chip cookie...then I LOVE the mac-n-cheese and I get a side of the fruit cup with it. Wow...I'm gonna have to hit Panera this week...lol.
Compared to the classic NY bagel made by small bagel shops, chain restaurants like Panera and Einstein merely produce bread donuts - a proper bagel requires a crisp outer crust thanks to taking a plunge in a lye water bath prior to baking.
@KristinaIsUpset it's not summer or Good Mythical Summer. This is their 3rd week straight of poorly planned and poorly worded to the fans "Sping Break", even though Spring Break never lasts more than 1 week anywhere else. 🙄
Einstein Bros is absolutely the superior bagel company. The outside is crispy and the inside is chewy. And schmear is a noun. You get a bagel & a schmear. It can be a verb. They are schmearing your bagel.
Isn’t a Panera bread in NC where R&L came up with the idea for one of their YT channels? I feel like I remember hearing them saying that at some point. Maybe it was in the book of mythicality?
As a frequent Panera goer I can’t say I have ever gone there with the intent to buy a bagel meal. The only time I ever ate a bagel was when they gave my friends and I a large bag full of day old bagels that were left over. And I can also say that I have never heard of Einstein Bro’s until this episode.
The shmear is how Einstein's sells it... a bagel with spread on top and once you go shmear you don't go back... 😂 😂 definition~ Schmear is a word of Germanic origin, equivalent to "smear" or "spread". In some Germanic languages, the cognate of smear itself means butter. The use and spelling of schmear or shmear in American English is a direct loanword from Yiddish, where its original usage referred to cheese.
They have multiple Einstein Bros in NY and they each last reported making over 100k in profits after paying salaries and such. They aren't just going toe-to-toe, they are making more than many local businesses. Which is insane to me.
This is the first time I've never heard of one of the restaurants. I'm from the east coast (Maine), now living in the midwest (Illinois), and have never heard of Einstein Bros.
Well like, Panera is not a "bagel shop" by any stretch of the imagination. They have bagels, but it's not what they are known for. They are pretty much a "soup and sandwich" place. MOST of their soups are amazing. Their mac and cheese is also quite good. Most of their sandwiches are good. If you're going there for a good bagel.. you may not find it.
Both of them constantly saying "muffin" and "cookie," but not once putting together that it's a portmanteau of muffin and cookie was driving me insane.
Y'all should do a prank episode on Rhett and Link, where the crew laughs extra hard at funny things Link says and do and not at all at funny things Rhett says and do
Brilliant
They need to do this
If someone instructed me not to laugh at someone I will 100% laugh at the thought of it
@@jamesaditya5254cool
Says and do😂
Link gaslighting Stevie into thinking he said something he didn't say is my favorite part of this episode.
Any time link uses his toxicity against stevie its a win for everyone....
BS
Link is toxic AF
@@EK-xz8iglol you people take things way too seriously
@@EK-xz8igyou do not know these people…
They need to do these episodes where they dont know which restaurant is which while eating.
I totally agree!!
Absolutely!
Yes! only then would it be a true score
This, they should definitely be blind taste tests and then they can try to guess which is which at the end of each round to make it kind of a game too
definitely need to be blind tests bc the ppl want to know w/o influence !!!
Best running joke this season has to be Stevie’s nicknames for the boys 😂
It’s so good!
It’s kind of an anti joke
i didn’t expect them to actually do it when Rhett or Link made the suggestion last season, but i’m so glad they went with it
what’s funny about it?
yeah I hope she keeps them coming ❤
Shmear is yiddish for the spread that goes on a bagel.
I came here to say that exactly!
that makes sense - I guess it all comes from the german verb - schmieren which means to lubricate / grease or smear something. Cause i was confused, but yiddish has a lot of similarities to german
yeah, but link cant be right about something
Is it a cognate of the English word “smear”?
also related to German ("schmieren")
Panera isn't a bagel place as Rhett stated. You don't go there thinking oh they have bagels, you go there thinking that you want bread or soup in a bread bowl or a sandwich with a soup in a bread bowl.
right? Like I don't know if I've ever ordered a bagel from there? I know some people do, but I mainly get soup or a sandwich sometimes? Those are the things I order
I work next to Panera and the only thing I eat from Panera (regularly) is a cinnamon crunch bagel with honey walnut cream cheese
@@CrazeeAdamI usually get the salads there
Really? I go there strictly for bagels, minus the one time I got an actual meal like a year ago (and regretted not getting bagels instead).
Yup, use to go to it after classes for their bread bowls lol.
During the shmear/cream cheese section, no one ate the strawberry shmear 😂
The best one 😢
Schmear
Raw dogging bagels like this is a crime. Absolutely wild.
Seriously! They really are “troglodytes” as Stevie said in the beginning for that.
New Yorkers watching this with tears in their eyes
I’ve had both while traveling and I’d honestly rather just get something else. These places make dry bread, shaped in circles, and call it a bagel.
lol good
At least in NY you can go get a real Bagel after drying your tears
Yup😊
When they were RIPPING THE BAGELS AND DIPPING THEM IN THE CREAM CHEESE. My internal New Jerseyan nearly short circuited.
as someone who used to work at panera, i never understood the side of extra hard bread on the side 😭
Other than with soup
You can choose other stuff besides the bread, you sure you worked there?? lol
@ctk4949 when did she say you couldn't?
I only ever get the broccoli and cheese soup from Panera so I love the side bread
@@ctk4949 that’s great but they’re still right lmao the bread is hard af
11:10 "Are you nauseated by this? What's up?" Haha.
As and employee of Einsteins I'm proud we took this win!
As a baker at Einsteins the cheesy hasbrown bagel for the first round was appalling! That store can do better!
Plus, the green chile and cheddar jalapeno bagels are the real winners at Einsteins!
Ohhhhh I bet this was fun to watch for you.
All nighter on a jalapeño cheddar bagel is my go to order and I love that cheesy hashbrown!
Einstein Bagels are the best! Only get them once a year when we visit San Diego :(
That brisket breakfast bagel is crazy good
why are all your bagels flavorless af
Schmear and smear are basically the same word. Smear is the English word, Schmear is the yiddish word that has recently been borrowed into English. Schmear has more to do with food and is more readily used as a noun but I think both can be used as nouns and verbs.
recently?
@@Palidine4M0OYes…not recently but more like decades!
Ive seen it spelt as shmear, not sure if it has a c in it
@@ArtofcarissaIt doesn't matter shmear vs. schmear. It's pronounced shmear
@@Artofcarissa It's not an English word so it doesn't have a set English spelling, it's שמיר
Did I miss understand something? I thought the spring break was for a week not a month lol
Right? Already on the Good Mythical Summer schedule 😂
Panera has regular muffins! Why would they choose to compare the muffin top to a regular muffin? That round needs a redo.
I was thinking the same thing lol
Because this has nothing to do with Reality. Look at Link. He's definitely not in reality.
Agreed
Sometimes they are limited by what the stores near them have in stock, and that might have been the closest they could get that day
Rhett not liking the muffie throws his opinion about anything into question
These episodes are the ones that should be blindfolded taste tests.
Panera's cinnamon crunch bagel is perfection.
Absolutely with that honey nut cream cheese🤤🤤
Bread sliced with the honey walnut cream cheese!
Honestly
Yup! It’s absolutely amazing. So good that I’m currently making some homemade!😂 Hopefully this recipe, for the actual cinnamon crunch, is good or I’m going to be let down.
The best thing they have!!
Cream cheese is a type of schmear. All cream cheese spreads are schmears but not all schmears are cream cheese based. Although typically schmears are cream cheese based.
The WHOLE POINT of a muffin top is to get all the crispy, sugary, topping filled goodness. Why Panera decided to just make a bread cookie is so confusing to me 😅
JAB Holding Company owns Bruegger’s, Krispy Kreme, Peet’s Coffee and Penera Brands ( Panera Bread, Einstein Bros., Caribou Coffee ) who are headquartered in Luxembourg. 😎👍
I always said Brueggers was way better than Panera... We're they maybe the same?
I was an Einstein Bros. store manager for 4 years way back in the early 2010's while I was getting my Masters degree. Link is 100% right about the "schmear marketing". Einstein's cream cheese is a whipped cream cheese so it "schmears". The word comes from the German word "smear" which essentially means to spread butter... a lighter, more spreadable topping than actual cream cheese. It's easier to spread because it's whipped and almost butter-like.
Okay but regular unwhipped cream cheese is also schmear.
Good mythical morning to all of my First Shift beasts 🤘
Good morning good mythical daddy
good morning! have a good day
Good morning to you too brother. It's gonna be a rough one but a good one
Or to the ones that haven’t slept yet!
Feeling so seen lol
As someone who went to a university with an Einstein's on its campus, I'm glad they are getting their flowers here.
As a Panera Bread baker, I'm sad we took this loss!
On the last cinnamon sugar bagel, the cinnamon sugar being on the inside is actually a mistake by the baker who made it that day. You're supposed to perfectly pinch the dough and put the cinnamon crunch topping on top, but I'm assuming their dough partially came apart before baking.
Unfortunate loss for Panera, but as many others stated, Panera is more of a sandwich and soup bread place than a bagel place.
Einsteins does slap though.
Can I ask how much of the food is still made in-house, rather than shipped/reheated? I've loved Panera since I was a teenager and I still like certain items, but it seems the quality has gone down :/ Love the cinnamon crunch and asiago bagels tho.
Both these places are near my work. I opt for the independent little bagel shop with the homemade breakfasts.
Rhett: "we gotta get this thing uploaded real soon" 😂😂😂 actually LOLd
right! on that topic, i thought they recorded a day in advance this whole time 😅 no procrastination with the GM team
eating pizza at 4 am with the boys and their bagels. living life!
Literally just did the same.
bro wtf i was just eating pizza hut
As a Brit I cannot fathom eating a bagel untoasted. I've never met a British person who doesn't toast the bagel. It's so hard and chewy without toasting
as an american i can’t eat an untoasted bagel either
Toasting saves mediocre bagels, but with a good, fresh bagel you shouldn't need to toast it.
Fellow Brit here - it’s because we don’t get good fresh bagels. The ones we get need toasting.
I'm from the U.S and if it's not toasted I don't want it.
US here, toasted is the way to go, especially toasted boiled bagels ✨
Just looked up Einstein Bros and found that theirs two in my city. Crazy, I never heard of them before. One in a college a the other is across the street from another college. Pretty strategic.
They are definitely targeting college set- the only ones we have around d here are in student centers
All 3 in the state of Alabama where I live are on or very near college campuses. They seem to be targeting the college student market pretty specifically where Panera likes to target a wider market of working professionals and soccer moms.
I've only seen them at college campuses tbh!
I’m literally at University of Houston rn which is the only place I’ve seen an Einstein Bros and this video made me want to go get an All Nighter
"Whats this bread donut, I don't understand it..." - Rhett! I'm crying hahahaha
I love Link and his schmear rant
Link is exhausting…
@@AutoYoungtake your meds
@@AutoYoung it's obvious the staff laugh at him, not with him
@@firdawesome3203 Good, if the staff can laught AT the boss, its a good place.
@@AutoYoung Why do you watch the show, then?
So, in case you want the definition answer (because I also was curious)
Schmear is a word of Germanic origin, equivalent to "smear" or "spread". In some Germanic languages, the cognate of smear itself means butter. The use and spelling of schmear or shmear in American English is a direct loanword from Yiddish, where its original usage referred to cheese.
All I know is thank goodness I grew up at the Jersey shore where there’s pretty much an actual bagel shop in every town
From Jersey and honestly there are several in most towns, all better than both of these
Bruegger's Bagels are the best hands down.
“Who goes to Panera when Einstein Bros exists.”
Me, who has never heard of Einstein Bros. 😂
Still on string break?
Usually it’s 2 weeks. This is now 3
Well the nearest Einstein’s is an hour away so… Panera for me haha
Why are you raw dogging blueberry bagels? 😂
I was so happy to wake up this morning to find you were always eating bagels this morning. It was nice to share a bagel breakfast with you from NY!
Link revealing they filmed this at 2 am is huge for gmm production lore
Yea ! I was thinking the same thing,
I was always wondering if they recorded a bunch of these at a time and just swapped clothes etc and this kinda leans into that a lil bit !
This definitely wasnt filmed at 2am. They 100% film multiple episodes a day, and more along a regular work day schedule. There's a ton of people that work there, they can't have all of them working nights.
@@timthelittlemusicfoxhow does this help your theory???
It was a Joke obviously lol
Yeah based on Rhett’s response and the crew’s laugh, it definitely was a joke
What's up with the MWF release schedule? Did I miss something? Are we in GMSummer already?
Chad
The thing is us yankees would never go to either of these places for a bagel
Exactly
Correct
One of the biggest differences in scores yet in this format of episodes.
ive never even heard of einstein brothers
You'll find them in airports alot
@@DrDarkheart makes sense, I've never been to one of those, also I'm not american
Lying down for bed post night shift and getting this notification = one of the best feelings😊
Still at work, watching for my last hour! Get some good day sleeps!
@@RavenG.est95this is the way
It's my post night shift, before bed routine to watch the new episode every morning as well!
I believe schmear is a Yiddish word for spread as in spreading the butter on your bread.
You are the best Stevie 😂❤
Drake
@@EvelynLogan-ew9rp what’s up?
anyone else from NJ/NY that’s super confused as to why panera is being considered as a “good” bagel place or at least one worth to compare with another
Einstein donates all their bagels at the end of each day.
Needed this today boys. And everyday. Thank you.
Speaking of the chickatrice pin, we need a rubber duckie version of the mythical cockatrice.
GMM is my dinner show, 7:50pm in Australia 🌻
Hello from the past
👋 Hello from the future! 😆🥲
Am I the only one who doesn’t think these two are in the same category? Einsteins bagels should be compared to like bagel boys and then Panera bread is a lunch place that’s not the same
So who are you comparing Panera to then? You didn’t say a suggestion.
Yeah just you.
I agree - I'm pretty sure Panera doesn't have bagels at all their locations, because I never knew they even had bagels. Around me, I only see people going there for lunch. Everyone goes to Einstein Bros in the morning for bagels. I would compare Einstein to Great American Bagel (those are the 2 biggest ones near me, anyway), and I would compare Panera to something like Potbelly I guess; though I don't think Panera would win regardless of which category you put it in. I think Panera used to be better when it was a smaller, private company (though I'm just assuming it was a mom & pop shop at some point).
I don't like Paneras lunches i only like there bagels and pastries. I tend to think of them more for breakfast. They are also closer to me so there is that.
And yet there is much internet debate between the two. Maybe this will help put it to rest.
I feel like it was a missed opportunity not comparing the lemonades from both stores!!! It's a house-made staple at both.
Untoasted bagels!! Heresy!
The cinnamon crunch bagels from Panera are 1 of my favorite 3 things. I love them and the chocolate chip cookie...then I LOVE the mac-n-cheese and I get a side of the fruit cup with it. Wow...I'm gonna have to hit Panera this week...lol.
love staying up until 3am and watching these before bed
This has got the laidback vibe of a GMM More
Mick
Compared to the classic NY bagel made by small bagel shops, chain restaurants like Panera and Einstein merely produce bread donuts - a proper bagel requires a crisp outer crust thanks to taking a plunge in a lye water bath prior to baking.
Missed opportunity for them to refer to the bagel holes as “B holes.”
I never go to any of these bread and soup places. It's too expensive for mediocre food.
Why are they posting only two days a week?
@KristinaIsUpset it's not summer or Good Mythical Summer. This is their 3rd week straight of poorly planned and poorly worded to the fans "Sping Break", even though Spring Break never lasts more than 1 week anywhere else. 🙄
Three weeks of "spring break"?
Jeremy
Always knew Einstein's was top tier and here's the proof
now we need panera versus zupas! panera needs a chance at redemption with another soup/sandwich place
8:08 how could y’all not do the garden veg shmear!? 😭 that’s the best one!
I’m just picking, but the onion & chive is also fantastic. I crave Einstein’s every day
I'll never forgive Panera for discontinuing the jalapeño cheddar bagel
THEY WHAT????? I haven’t been in ages, but I will continue to wait to go back on account of that. That’s absurd.
Einstein Bros is absolutely the superior bagel company.
The outside is crispy and the inside is chewy.
And schmear is a noun.
You get a bagel & a schmear.
It can be a verb.
They are schmearing your bagel.
As a Panera employee i cant wait to be promoted to the mythical crew
You guys shouldn’t tell them where each place is from
You pay $9 for a breakfast bagel? Eesh, I knew Cali was bad, but that is crazy...
Isn’t a Panera bread in NC where R&L came up with the idea for one of their YT channels? I feel like I remember hearing them saying that at some point. Maybe it was in the book of mythicality?
Dude that's a fan flex and it's awesome you know that about the Chanel
As a frequent Panera goer I can’t say I have ever gone there with the intent to buy a bagel meal. The only time I ever ate a bagel was when they gave my friends and I a large bag full of day old bagels that were left over.
And I can also say that I have never heard of Einstein Bro’s until this episode.
The shmear is how Einstein's sells it... a bagel with spread on top and once you go shmear you don't go back... 😂 😂 definition~ Schmear is a word of Germanic origin, equivalent to "smear" or "spread". In some Germanic languages, the cognate of smear itself means butter. The use and spelling of schmear or shmear in American English is a direct loanword from Yiddish, where its original usage referred to cheese.
I’m from NYC I’ve never heard of Einstein . I guess our bagels are so good a bagel chain doesn’t want to go toe to toe
Facts, the bagels in New York are the best I’ve tasted 🔥
They dont compare to NY bagels!!
They have multiple Einstein Bros in NY and they each last reported making over 100k in profits after paying salaries and such. They aren't just going toe-to-toe, they are making more than many local businesses. Which is insane to me.
@@MisterPuggles It's like when Michael Scott went to Sbarro for authentic NY pizza
@@short537 That is probably the best comparison I have ever heard. You are absolutely correct.
Video I’ve been waiting for
The shmear bit is amazing 😂
We need New Yorkers doing this review, not Southern Boys 😂
I think "Well schmear me silly.." is my new favorite phrase now 😂😂
Finally an episode where both restaurants are in my area
That cage free joke was under appreciated
This is the first time I've never heard of one of the restaurants. I'm from the east coast (Maine), now living in the midwest (Illinois), and have never heard of Einstein Bros.
TROGLODYTE 😂😂
Schmear is usually the noun version of smear
i wish we had a stevie cam for this episode 😹😹
Another day. Another episode with breakfast. Here since Chia Lincoln. Wild to see how far yall have come.
I forgot about chia Lincoln!
Rhett saying "I really love that top" went unnoticed 😂
Schmear is americanized Yiddish.
Oy, I can tell you a lot about Americanized Yiddish. The mispronouncation of tchotchkes for starters
Those aren't real new jersey or new york bagels, those are like supermarket bagels
tried panera once, tasted like cardboard, have never been back
Good call, it hasn't changed much. There's a few things that are ok, but it's over priced and the service at most locations is horribly slow.
Well like, Panera is not a "bagel shop" by any stretch of the imagination. They have bagels, but it's not what they are known for. They are pretty much a "soup and sandwich" place. MOST of their soups are amazing. Their mac and cheese is also quite good. Most of their sandwiches are good. If you're going there for a good bagel.. you may not find it.
Rhett: "What's this Bagel Doughnut?" I had the same reaction when I first saw a bagel.
Ordered Einstein Bros. this morning specifically for this episode xD
Link just said “Rhett likes a little surprise in his Apple.” Nice link. Lol
Panera just asked me for a 20% tip for watching this video.
My favorite comment ever.
Please put the prices on the screen. Love the show!
13:59 adding the strategic “ie”/“y” at the end there.
Hi 👋
You gotta test the coffee salads etc :)
Both of them constantly saying "muffin" and "cookie," but not once putting together that it's a portmanteau of muffin and cookie was driving me insane.
Brothers and sisters, I am ashamed to say I haven’t fallen asleep yet 🥴
me neither LOL
Right there with you 😵💫
Love it. One of my favorite ways to refer to "Crusty Custies" at work: troglodytes